The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-07-28
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sorings from the Exchanges.
A woman in Crewe, England, has
lately been appointed town crier and bill
poster.
Petriied wood is found in great abun-
dance in Burson, Calaveras county, Cal,
and vicinity.
Hotels, boarding houses and farms all
included, $4,000 people can be accommo-
dated this season in, around and about tho
Catskills
Harvard university paid $40, 900 for the
sixty acres containing the famous Serpent
mound of Ohio, and will make national
park of it.
A farmer of Plymouth, Ills, angry at
his COW, endeavored to kick her on the
nose. She lowered her head, and he inn
paled his leg upon her sharp horns.
In rings all kinds of stones are now set
low and in clusters, the effect being
reached more through the beauty of tina
stones than their prominence.
An English novelist has found a neat
motive for his forthcoming story. He en-
dows his hero with the faculty Of foresec-
ing the future, but makes him unable 10
disclose to any one what he knows.
Somerset county, Me-, has a minister
who has his sermons printed monthly and
sends them to those of his parishioners
who do not attend church. He insists
upon looking after their souls welfare
even if they are too lazy TO do so them
selves.
The pack of canned fruits in California
this year is expected to be the heaviest OH
record. Many new orchards have come
into full bearing for the first time this
season, and the result is an enormous crop
of apricots, peaches, cherries and pears
The total pack for this year is estimated
by good authorities at from % to so per
cent. more than last season.
There is a mouse in shop window at
Chester, HIS, that has grown quite tame
and catches flies. The mouse has grown
quite used to having an audience, and
does not run away unless the spectator
makes n sudden move while he is at work
He is an experienced fly catcher and never
misses. Upon making a grab for his prey
he sits back on his launches and calmly
devours the choice morsel,
Dainty wreaths of flowers, the work of
hands that lost their cunning 5000 years
ago, have lately been found in q subterra-
mean gallery near Thebes. where, with the
royal mummies they adorned, they had
remained undisturbed during half the
whole period of historic time. They par
TALLY retained their fragrance, and even
their color had not entirely disappeared.
They must have been costly luxury in
the country described by the prophet
Zachariah as a region where there is no
rain.
The more or less dubious story comes to
us of the discovery of Ovid's tomb at
Anadolkivi, near Kustendami, names
scarcely significant to most readers. The
place, however, is on the Euxine, few
miles south of the Danube, near the island
of Toni, to which Ovid was banished, A. ID.
s, probably on account of an intrigue with
Julia, daughter of the Emperor Augustus.
The stone marking the tomb is said tG
represent Ovid's arrival at the island All
of which is important to classical scholars
il true, but it is to be hoped that the stone
may not turn out to be like the one dis,
covered by that distinguished antiquarian,
Mr.. Pickwick,
Work is going forward rapidly on the
Gambetta monument in the Place du Car.
rousel, Paris. The architectural part OF
the monument is quite finished, and the
statue of the dictator is almost complete
Gambetta is represented as restoring To
life his country with his genius the figure
is work of remarkable power. The other
half of the monument, which is of an en-
blematio character, is more open to objec-
tion. 1t represents a gigantic symbol of
the Gallo cock Growing, with crowns of
laurel and oak at its feet. Behind the
bird are arms piled, and hand holding
shield, which bears the inscription "Com-
pulsory military service" and "Educa-
ton for all" 1t is expected that the
monument will be completed by the end
of September